Potted

Saturday was Harry Potter Day at Casa Del Cud. The Girl and I went to the mall (ugh!) and bought the last book and saw the 5th movie. The movie was good. Of course, they had to cut some things and combine scenes or the movie would have been 15 hours long and who would want to watch that? Some of the changes were improvements, which is different than most movie adaptations of books. Usually I wonder what the fuck were they thinking when they switch things all around.

Like the movie Blood and Chocolate. The book was great. The movie was nothing like the book. They were both about werewolves, and the characters were named the same, but everything else was different. Even the setting was changed from a generic high school in America to a city in Romania or some Godforsaken Slavic type country. The actual movie wasn't that bad, but if they're going to change the plot and the setting they should have the balls to change the character's names and the title of the movie. It was like filming a movie set it in China in 2154 but calling it Gone with the Wind.

I didn't want to write about the book too soon. Didn't want to spoil the ending for anybody. But then it came to me. Who reads this anyway? Does anybody here besides me and The Girl care about Harry Potter? Plus I didn't finish reading the book until yesterday. There is that. The Girl and I were swapping the book back and forth. I was going to let her read it first, but she didn't want to have to wait until I was done reading it to talk about it. So she would read a big chunk, then I would read a big chunk, then we would squeal and chatter like a couple of groupies at a Beetles concert. The Man would like to track down Harry Potter and strangle him with his bare hands.

I don't know if this qualifies as a spoiler, but it ends Happily Ever After. Of course. Like it could end with Voldemort killing Harry. Although The Girl likes watching some shows on BBC and commented on the British having a little more of a black sense of humor. The hero dies a tragic death and everybody has to soldier on. Stiff upper lip and all that rot. But still, if JK Rowling killed Harry she would have to go into the witness relocation program because she would be on intercontinental hit lists.